I am testing BIRD to put into production to replace several VPN appliances I am using to route to my AWS site. I've never used BIRD before so please forgive ignorance/ If I put a test windows machine behind this routing server I am able to route to my amazon nets and my other networks locally, however I cannot route to the internet.

Would this be causing issues with routing out to the internet from a server in the 172.30.0.176/28 network that is using the router as its default gateway? If so how can I change the routing so that BIRD doesn't try to route internet traffic and only traffic for the internal networks?

I should also mention that IP forwarding is set root@r2:~# cat /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward 1
– bakesaleOct 16 '13 at 22:41

I am a bit confused about how you think BIRD will replace VPNs. I really don't understand what you are trying to actually do here. Can you create a diagram or something describing how your networks and how they should interlink?
– ZoredacheOct 16 '13 at 23:41

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Sorry perhaps I should be more clear, the BIRD routing is actually using a VPN with Racoon to get to its neighbour. My hope is to replace the three VPNs we are currently using for various routes and networks with one that uses BIRD. The reason why we want to use BGP as we expect to grow the environment over the next year or so and find it is easier to add routes with BGP.
– bakesaleOct 16 '13 at 23:46

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I've managed to resolve my problem. The issue here was a NAT one. The router was passing through the traffic to the internet not on the public IP of the router but as the internal IP of the machine which is obviously why it wouldnt work. By adding NAT rules for the network I resolved the problem.